With the minimal amount of RAM Windows 98 computers usually have, it's almost impossible to play games and such without having atleast 95% of memory being used.
lol Not really, 512mb of ram is more then enough. Windows 98 SE uses 27% of the 512mb of ram fully installed, in idle, with a bunch of monitoring programs running in the background.
Very True and the max capacity for 98 was 1GB, I have an old Penteum 3 1100 Mhz computer with 1gb of ram 2x512 kb of ram used to have 2000 pro on it., that box would have been perfect for this because it has an ethernet card in it that I added later on in the XP days, that box actually ran 2000 Pro at first and I used to play Sony Everquest on it after I added a radion 256k AGP GPU to it. I'm not real confident in the PSU on that, and it's not been on in ages, but if I had a new PSU I think it would fire right up and work. I don't think I would trust any PSU's from this era though, this many years later. 🤣
This was an amazing video and I totally feel your pain Makhir. Old PCs usually have no documentation or drivers on the internet cuz 'everything comes in the box'. Also, you could've found the first soundcard's model through Device Manager > Properties > Hardware IDs. I find that this usually yields better results even if you know the exact model because everything back then had 20 letter names which Google just mixes with 20 other similarly named devices. Nice work as always, keep growing :)
those "chipset INF drivers" are really just text info to be added into the registry in which windows uses and adds onto missing devices in the device manager. it also loads the required PCI bus bios table from the INF in order to use proper PCI Interrupt allocation & steering that other vendor devices rely on for proper function. "which is why your geforce 5200 pci wasn't working at first" Sometimes windows 9x will load a generic PCI routing table for the current platform you're currently using and you could get away without needing chipset drivers if your device is only PCI or PCIE. "PCI Express devices are treated the same as simple PCI devices in windows until you install a driver for the device, for example PCIE Graphics, NIC's and etc..."
nice video man, maybe do the same video idea but with the windows 98 external kernal? with that ur gonna turn windows 98 into an ultimate beast trust me on that one xD
Nothing wrong with using 98/98se for things it does best. I still use ME (with rloew patches) for certain games, word processing, and photo editing stuff. Naturally i use 7 for web browsing and day to day use but i still use ME frequently.
That's weird. I recall buying a "chubby" HP Pavilion PC that I intended to use for my sleeper build. Father suggested some other options, some of which I felt were too new, then reluctantly made an offer, then bought, the one I intended. Then I tried using it for some tasks like gaming, but then found out that the wireless wasn't even working, so I left it in the garage.
I had an extremely similar computer to this one, but it was a 532w. I do remember a few things about it but you're absolutely correct, info for these machines are so limited on today's internet, it's insane. But one quirk I remember was that the 845 graphics chip in Windows 98 only allocated 8MBs of onboard memory whereas Windows XP, it was 64MBs. Why this was a thing...I don't know. I never figured it out. But either way, the chip was a bit of a glitchy specimen. In fact when I used to emulate The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time via Project64 back in the day, if you used the onboard graphics, Link's collar would just be white for some odd reason. When I upgraded to an nVidia Geforce 4, that problem went away. But honestly, I really didn't have a lot of trouble running Windows 98 on this machine. When using an addon graphics card and even an addon sound card, it ran pretty well in my opinion. But mine was a Celeron running at 1.7GHz, which these days I wouldn't touch with a 100 foot pole. Then one day the computer just quit turning on. I believe the power supply went on it but rather than changing it, I just got a different computer that was able to be upgraded a bit more since by now, it was 2006.
You know, reason why some games like MK4 and House of the Dead didn't work is due to the fact you buy it digitally form website rather than physical copy or might been graphic cards that it requires. Aiside form that not bad video in fact it's nice to see someone like you able to revisiting the classic windows form late 90's
Got a pentium 4 650 oced to 4.3ghz on a asus p5p800 with 512mb of 400mhz cl2 ram and fx 5950 ultra, audigy 2 zs using a ssd on a sata to ide connector with win 98 se, xp pro and 10 pro 32bit tripple boot. Its able to run everything from 1990 till 2006. Win 10 is just there for easy file download and management. Yes win 98 needs a lot of reinstalls to get fully working, specially with more then 1 os on the same disk. Toke me weeks.
Bro. I used Windows 98 in 892MB RAM and 8 cores. I have the fastest Windows 98 PC. Also with Windows 95 with True Color 32 bit which will have 4.228 BILLION colors. Now take that!
I, too had a rose-tinted glasses vision of Windows 98. When itv worked it was quite lovely. To 98s defense, I've had an equal number of issues with 10. Good riddance to that.
i think your running a hp computer , they gave me problems with software ,, i bought a dell inspiron 4100 ,512MB ram,,,,,p3 1ghz i installlled windows 98 se and a SOUND BLASTER pci ZS sound card ,, .,it has the vga slot and i had a xtra geforce fx 5200 wanted to try it ,, it worked fine ,,my other computer i have has xp windows and a ide cable ,, i pulled the hard drive out of my dell put all the drivers i needed ,,and put the ide drive back in my dell ,,,,,,,,, i only tryed the pci video card , my dell has the 4x agp slot and i had the geforce 5200 256mb agp video i installled works fine ,, sorry you could not play games,, ,, great video,, dam i had the same video problem with video drivers on my windows 2000 computer,, i have no problems with playing pc games ,,,,,RETRO PC,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Watched only half of the video... You could just use DOS floppy from USB and copied files from windows 98 to preformatted drive C:. No need for CD-rom. You can take HDD out, and you know, connect to some other PC. = ) You could even install some DOS using virtual machine, which have attached real HDD. Or just raw copy virtual drive with DOS to real HDD, and then install Win98 from DOS. And copy some USB drivers for it. Also starting from Windows 2000 (I think), you can look up device ids in Device Manager, and google what hardware they correspond to, and which drivers you should download for them. Yeah, I tried Win98 on PIII machine and never bought anything for it, as I had a bunch of video cards and sound cards and CD-ROMs and stuff. And it was still not so easy, and after all of that, I just use virtual machines to run games under Windows 98 = ) As it is more convenient.
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With the minimal amount of RAM Windows 98 computers usually have, it's almost impossible to play games and such without having atleast 95% of memory being used.
Rloew patch fixes thst
lol Not really, 512mb of ram is more then enough. Windows 98 SE uses 27% of the 512mb of ram fully installed, in idle, with a bunch of monitoring programs running in the background.
Very True and the max capacity for 98 was 1GB, I have an old Penteum 3 1100 Mhz computer with 1gb of ram 2x512 kb of ram used to have 2000 pro on it., that box would have been perfect for this because it has an ethernet card in it that I added later on in the XP days, that box actually ran 2000 Pro at first and I used to play Sony Everquest on it after I added a radion 256k AGP GPU to it. I'm not real confident in the PSU on that, and it's not been on in ages, but if I had a new PSU I think it would fire right up and work. I don't think I would trust any PSU's from this era though, this many years later. 🤣
I know right
This was an amazing video and I totally feel your pain Makhir. Old PCs usually have no documentation or drivers on the internet cuz 'everything comes in the box'.
Also, you could've found the first soundcard's model through Device Manager > Properties > Hardware IDs.
I find that this usually yields better results even if you know the exact model because everything back then had 20 letter names which Google just mixes with 20 other similarly named devices.
Nice work as always, keep growing :)
those "chipset INF drivers" are really just text info to be added into the registry in which windows uses and adds onto missing devices in the device manager. it also loads the required PCI bus bios table from the INF in order to use proper PCI Interrupt allocation & steering that other vendor devices rely on for proper function. "which is why your geforce 5200 pci wasn't working at first"
Sometimes windows 9x will load a generic PCI routing table for the current platform you're currently using and you could get away without needing chipset drivers if your device is only PCI or PCIE. "PCI Express devices are treated the same as simple PCI devices in windows until you install a driver for the device, for example PCIE Graphics, NIC's and etc..."
Just imagine a guy watching this video from a windows 98 pc
@@Herobrine_Unknown yea I know that RUclips wont support in windows 98 but just imagine some person in this world may be using windows 98 as a main os
u can acc watch yt on windows 98 if u are using the 98 extended kernal xD
me but its an xp
@@mostafa123game This is an XP kernel and therefore you technically no longer have Windows 98.
@@Simon-jh1hf there is a one for 98
nice video man, maybe do the same video idea but with the windows 98 external kernal? with that ur gonna turn windows 98 into an ultimate beast trust me on that one xD
Ahhh I should've tried that
xp uses NTFS and in the 98 days the only operating system to support that is windows NT 98 uses FAT32
Nothing wrong with using 98/98se for things it does best. I still use ME (with rloew patches) for certain games, word processing, and photo editing stuff. Naturally i use 7 for web browsing and day to day use but i still use ME frequently.
That's weird. I recall buying a "chubby" HP Pavilion PC that I intended to use for my sleeper build. Father suggested some other options, some of which I felt were too new, then reluctantly made an offer, then bought, the one I intended. Then I tried using it for some tasks like gaming, but then found out that the wireless wasn't even working, so I left it in the garage.
I had an extremely similar computer to this one, but it was a 532w. I do remember a few things about it but you're absolutely correct, info for these machines are so limited on today's internet, it's insane. But one quirk I remember was that the 845 graphics chip in Windows 98 only allocated 8MBs of onboard memory whereas Windows XP, it was 64MBs. Why this was a thing...I don't know. I never figured it out. But either way, the chip was a bit of a glitchy specimen. In fact when I used to emulate The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time via Project64 back in the day, if you used the onboard graphics, Link's collar would just be white for some odd reason. When I upgraded to an nVidia Geforce 4, that problem went away. But honestly, I really didn't have a lot of trouble running Windows 98 on this machine. When using an addon graphics card and even an addon sound card, it ran pretty well in my opinion. But mine was a Celeron running at 1.7GHz, which these days I wouldn't touch with a 100 foot pole. Then one day the computer just quit turning on. I believe the power supply went on it but rather than changing it, I just got a different computer that was able to be upgraded a bit more since by now, it was 2006.
As far as I know, you don't need any sound drivers on Vista as well (even tho Windows Update used to install them automatically anyway)
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For the sound driver, I rather go to the specific motherboard model and see which audio chipset uses.
Get the hardware id from Device Manager and Google it.
You know, reason why some games like MK4 and House of the Dead didn't work is due to the fact you buy it digitally form website rather than physical copy or might been graphic cards that it requires.
Aiside form that not bad video in fact it's nice to see someone like you able to revisiting the classic windows form late 90's
Got a pentium 4 650 oced to 4.3ghz on a asus p5p800 with 512mb of 400mhz cl2 ram and fx 5950 ultra, audigy 2 zs using a ssd on a sata to ide connector with win 98 se, xp pro and 10 pro 32bit tripple boot. Its able to run everything from 1990 till 2006. Win 10 is just there for easy file download and management. Yes win 98 needs a lot of reinstalls to get fully working, specially with more then 1 os on the same disk. Toke me weeks.
I used to play Need for speed 3 on my ps2
This remember me my old Compaq PC ( First computer). My habe 2gb ddr ram and a fx 5500 256mb.
OMGGG so amaziiingggggggggggggg mAKHIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR (in a kolhapuri accent)
Bro i have the compaq pc with wondows 98second edition
Hi! How's it going?
Hi, pretty good!
You can use 3d p chip for drivers on computers like this
In the intro he said 2000 is bigger than 98
Bro. I used Windows 98 in 892MB RAM and 8 cores. I have the fastest Windows 98 PC.
Also with Windows 95 with True Color 32 bit which will have 4.228 BILLION colors. Now take that!
Windows 98 can't see more than 1 core lol
6:43 it says it support win98SE which is windows 98 second edition and nit windows 98
This was a good video
I installed windows me recently. It has better usb support.
Bro where are you from
I am 13 but my first os was actually XP
Watching someone this young talking about 98 is kind of funny.
I tried Windows XP in 2023.
Can you tell me how to install windows xp?
Bro is the best Indian
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I, too had a rose-tinted glasses vision of Windows 98. When itv worked it was quite lovely. To 98s defense, I've had an equal number of issues with 10. Good riddance to that.
Imagine using windows 1.0
I did!!!
I installed it on Navy computers in the 80s on 20MB hard drives!
Has anyone managed to use a USB mouse in Windows 98?
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Hello
i think your running a hp computer , they gave me problems with software ,, i bought a dell inspiron 4100 ,512MB ram,,,,,p3 1ghz i installlled windows 98 se and a SOUND BLASTER pci ZS sound card ,, .,it has the vga slot and i had a xtra geforce fx 5200 wanted to try it ,, it worked fine ,,my other computer i have has xp windows and a ide cable ,, i pulled the hard drive out of my dell put all the drivers i needed ,,and put the ide drive back in my dell ,,,,,,,,, i only tryed the pci video card , my dell has the 4x agp slot and i had the geforce 5200 256mb agp video i installled works fine ,, sorry you could not play games,, ,, great video,, dam i had the same video problem with video drivers on my windows 2000 computer,, i have no problems with playing pc games ,,,,,RETRO PC,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Watched only half of the video... You could just use DOS floppy from USB and copied files from windows 98 to preformatted drive C:. No need for CD-rom. You can take HDD out, and you know, connect to some other PC. = ) You could even install some DOS using virtual machine, which have attached real HDD. Or just raw copy virtual drive with DOS to real HDD, and then install Win98 from DOS. And copy some USB drivers for it.
Also starting from Windows 2000 (I think), you can look up device ids in Device Manager, and google what hardware they correspond to, and which drivers you should download for them.
Yeah, I tried Win98 on PIII machine and never bought anything for it, as I had a bunch of video cards and sound cards and CD-ROMs and stuff. And it was still not so easy, and after all of that, I just use virtual machines to run games under Windows 98 = ) As it is more convenient.
Oh, and by the way, you could find Mortal Kombat 4 original copies in the Internet, but I will not tell where = ) Who searches always finds.
get a dell next time cause you can get old drivers unlike hp.
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It's a waste of time. It was awful then and it's awful now. Stick to Linux.